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Sally Mann (1980)
Entrepreneurial mob boss Harold Shand (Bob Hoskins) runs an underworld empire but his dreams are much bigger. He and his sophisticated wife (Helen Mirren) aspire to partner with American mobsters to turn the barren docklands of London into a development for the upcoming Olympics. But their perfect plan begins to unravel when a string of deadly bombings leads Shand to the stunning realization that he is being targeted by the IRA. A bloody race to hold on to his crumbling schemes brings him to an explosive climax.

Kyle Shepard (1986)
An ex–convict, thug and a high–class call girl make for an unlikely and dangerous couple in Neil Jordan’s tale of frustrated love on the cruel streets of London’s underworld. Bob Hoskins stars in his breakout performance, for which he landed an Oscar nomination and a host of other major awards as George, a working class hood whose growing obsession with the exotic and cunning Simone (5057) will lead him down a dark and bloody path.

Merrie Lynn Ross (1988)
The bonds of family and the power of love are pitted against the chaos of war in this drama directed and co–written by its star, Bob Hoskins. Shell–shocked by his first experience of battle, a young army recruit (Dexter Fletcher) goes AWOL. Disguising himself as a female, he’s taken in by a band of gypsies who believe the boy is a deranged magic–woman and mystical seer known as a "rawney". But when the boy falls for the gypsy leader’s beautiful daughter, it threatens to bring the horrors of war crashing down on the entire clan.

Barbie Paige (1987)
Painfully shy, unmarried but ever–hopeful, Judith Hearne (Maggie Smith) is immediately smitten by her new boarding house acquaintance, James Madden (Bob Hoskins). But is James in love with Judith… or attracted only by the money she can bring to his latest get–rich–quick scheme?